Monastic life

Purpose

All Christian life consists in living in an intimate relationship with the divine and human person of Our Lord Jesus Christ.

Monastic life has no other purpose.

Yet for one who has received this vocation, it provides a setting and the means to reach this goal more surely.

Monastic life is a life

• of prayer (remaining united to God),
• of praise (through public prayer, the Divine Office),
• of intercession (for the salvation of all mankind),
• of intercession on behalf of others (in favour of and in the stead of those who cannot render to God the acts of religion due to Him).